This is the case of Marion Bata, a mother, teacher, friend, missing for 25 years.

You know, no sign that she was going to vanish, that's for sure.

The bizarre circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

I'm not sure if it was intentional or if there's something more foul of foot.

If you could imagine a teacher coming straight from, say, a little house on the Prairie to the 80s, that was Marion Bata.

What do you know who I said?

Whether you find Marion Bata dead or alive, I honestly believe somebody has that key piece of information.

And the relentless quest of a daughter to find her mum.

If something had happened, something has happened to make her leave.

I am 100% sure, 100% sure that somebody knows something.

The Lady vanishes.

Episode 34.

It's been six weeks since we were in Byron Bay, and now we're heading back again.

During our absence, much of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland were hit by torrential rain causing terrible flooding.

The city of Brisbane, where Sally Layden and most of the Lady vanishes team live, was swamped by a rain bomb that lasted several days.

Hundreds of properties were inundated when rivers burst their banks or by stormwater unable to get away.

Our sound designer, Mark Wright, was cut off by floodwaters for several days.

Our writer, Sally Eels, spent several hours stacking sandbags and bailing water from her backyard.

When that rain slowly shifted, it caused immense damage south of the border.

One of the areas hit was Balana, where Mr Blum first appeared in court.

The town was evacuated once, but then residents were flooded in just weeks later.

Hardest hit, perhaps, was a nearby town of Lismore, which had almost 150 millimetres of rain in just 24 hours.

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